[Newbies] Re: A browser for the WordNet lexical db in Smalltalk, anybody?

[Klaus D. Witzel]

Hi Steve,

on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:07:34 +0100, you wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:57 +0100, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Klaus,
>>>
>>> This is a great idea!  I'll be glad to test anything you create.
>>
>> :)
>>
>>> Unfortunately I don't have any time for development.
>>
>> Do you happen to know Norberto, he emailed that he made an object model  
>> in
>> Squeak some time ago. Perhaps he can find it and send it to me over the
>> weekend.
>
> Don't know Norberto.  I hope he sends you an object model.  Maybe
> you're different but the blank sheet of paper is the hardest part of
> creating anything for me.

Na, that's the easier part ;) took objects without pointers (words ->  
Strings, synset id's -> SmallIntegers, synsets -> subclass of LookupKey)  
and Dictionary, easy and extendible.

Only performance of Dictionary is poor (unrelated to object model).

>> P.S. suggestions for a WordNet browser GUI in Squeak, anybody ?
>
> Typeahead for search,

Oh. Have you seen some (re-)usable code for that? This seems not to be soo  
straight-forward with morphic Squeak (example: Preferences browser).

> mouseover for everything in the WN archive,

Nah, too many WN entries have more than a screen-full of info (all the  
relations, all the synsets they point to, etc). I thought about a  
*browser* like the Smalltalk browsers, with panes for categories/relations  
and scrollable info-area.

> and
> an easy-to-extend model.  I'm interested in poetry so one thing I've
> thought about is adding some of poetry's technical details to a word's
> information---syllables, stresses, rhymes, etc.

This I do not understand. WordNet is about semantical relations of  
synsets, not about isolated *words* (despite "word" in its name). There is  
nothing one could store for one word, only for a synset/sense (multiple  
words).

Of course a relation like "rhymes_with" could be added easily but, there's  
nothing in WordNet for morphology, affixes, syllables and such.

>  With the right kind
> of interface, I could enter a poem I like and enter (some or all of)
> the information along the way, or just after.  Half an hour at a time.

So you think about a poetry text editor? well, I thought about a browser  
for information retrival.

>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> has anyone started with/plans for a browser for a WordNet lexical db  
>>>> in
>>>> Smalltalk? I checked their Prolog formatted files,
>>>>
>>>> - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain
>>>>
>>>> actually read them into a Squeak .image; they need only a handful of
>>>> memory MB (7.5, strings as yet not symbolized) plus less than 10MB of
>>>> disk
>>>> space if gloss texts would be stored in the .changes file.
>>>>
>>>> Also, if anyone already has (or had) ideas for a GUI for a WordNet
>>>> browser
>>>> in Squeak please let me know (!) I cannot say I like their basic Web
>>>> interface (it has nothing that a Smalltalk browser offers)
>>>>
>>>> -
>>>>
>>>> http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o0=1&o1=1&r=1&s=small+talk&i=1&h=100#c
>>>>
>>>> and think that can be done better for local use, for example in class
>>>> rooms (and of course when authoring documentation for Squeak ;) but,
>>>> unlikely for the OLPC because of the footprint.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>>>>
>>>> /Klaus
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it".
>>>> Albert Einstein
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it".  
>> Albert
>> Einstein
>>
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